THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

The Daimler-Benz engine works at Stuttgart was
attacked towards the end of August. On the night
of September 29 the Fokker aircraft factory at
Amsterdam was bombed, and the operation was
repeated on later nights.
Aircraft supply depots were also recipients of our
bombers* favours. The aircraft depot at Paderborn
in the Ruhr was raided four times in one week in
mid-July. Aircraft stores at Diepholz (north-east
of Osnabriick), Rotenburg (in Thuringia), Gottin-
gen, Kolleda (north of Weimar) and Cologne were
attacked in July, August and September. Particular
mention may be made of the raid of September 28
on the factory at Hanau, which produces metal
alloys for aeroplanes, etc. Meanwhile attacks on
armament works, such as those of Krupps at Essen
and the Skoda works at Pilzen (bombed on October
27 and again on November 19), on railway junctions,
on canals (notably the Dortmund-Ems Canal), on
chemical factories,,and blast furnaces were con-
tinued, and in September a new class of objective
was added to the list, namely, the great forests in
which western and southern Germany abounds.
These forests, which were plentifully sprinkled with
incendiary leaf-bombs by our aircraft, are not only
valuable for the timber which they contain but are
also the hiding places, here and there, of stocks of
munitions of various kinds.
Attacks on Railways and Canals
The attacks on Germany's railway and canal
communications have been especially sustained and
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